WHICH WAS THE FIRST ASTEROID TO BE DISCOVERED?

• Ceres
• Vesta
• Europa
• Pallas

A. CERES

WHICH COMET HAS BEEN SEEN THE MOST TIMES?

• Halley
• Encke
• Hale-Bopp
• Swift-Tuttle

ANSWER

WHAT IS THE HIGHEST SPEED WITH WHICH METEORS ENTER OUR ATMOSPHERE?

• 45 miles/second
• 55 miles/second
• 65 miles/second
• 75 miles/second

45 MILES/ SECOND

WHAT ARE COMETS USUALLY MADE OF?

• Ice and Metals
• Rocks and Dust
• Ice and Rocks
• Ice and Dust

ICE AND DUST

WHAT TWO PLANETS DO ASTEROIDS ORBIT AROUND?

• Mercury and Venus
• Earth and Neptune
• Mars and Jupiter
• Saturn and Uranus

MARS AND JUPITER

AVERAGE

1. What do you call the scale used to categorize typhoons according to their sustained winds?

SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE

EASY ROUND

True or false. Since the coriolis effect relies on the earth's rotation, this force is stronger in the equator.

FALSE

What forms when a typhoons windspeed exceeds 85mph?

THE EYE

True or false. The seismogram is an instrument used in measuring details of earthquakes.

FALSE! It's seismoGRAPH

WHAT DOES "P" STAND FOR IN P WAVES?

• Periodic
• Plate Tectonic
• Phase
• Primary

PRIMARY

DIFFICULT

Yes or no. There is no winds and clear skies in eyes of the storms

YES

What are fronts?

THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN 2 AIR MASSES

What is the name of the Filipino representative that made the emotional speech in the 2013 IPCC Convention in Warsaw?

YEB SANO

What does the coriolis effect do to typhoons in the northern hemisphere?

IT SPIRALS THEM TO THE COUNTER-CLOCKWISE DIRECTION

How many alert levels does PHILVOLCS have?

6